I got a costco card last week- the problem with costco is that everything in it is huge, so you eventually lose all sense of scale. Then all of a sudden everything there seems normal, and you start shopping like it’s a regular shop, not a bizarre place with foods and goods too large for any single human to reasonably use.

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The Costco is not to be trifled with- it is a force of reckoning. Those who survive the onslaught of cheap, bulk food and other stuff become stronger men and women of a class more akin to demigod than mortal.

I wish we had a Costco closer than a six hour drive; I’m used to living in the boonies an hours drive or more from EVERYTHING, and so I am in the habit of stocking up. Looking across to my closet now, I currently have nine pounds of beef jerky, about half a dozen 12 packs of soda pop, half a dozen large cans of tomato juice, a box of dry goods (ramen, the big gourmet ramen, some chips), and feel that I am in a state of shortage.
I feel the compulsive need to hoard food and snacks, just in case, because in the past, I’d get to go to the grocery store exactly once a month, and if I ran out before then? Too bad!

Of course, now Walmart is only like 4 miles away. I still tend to stock up as much as possible.